Wild Horse Hater “Dinky” Zinke is a Clown Pretending to be a Cowboy

“Zinke has apparently been tasked with dismantling every environmental safeguard he can…”

Dinky, “Hey, Horsy, I’m gonna have all your wild sisters and brothers SHOT and then we might even BBQ a couple, what do ya think of that?”

When Ryan Zinke was appointed Secretary of the Interior, I had no idea he was such a poser.

It bothered me a bit that he seemed to spend more time at his house in California than at his residence in Montana, but he was a decorated warrior and claimed to be a conservationist in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt.

I thought he might do a good job.

Then he showed up on horseback wearing a cowboy hat for his first day of work and I thought, hmmm, maybe not. This dude could be all hat.

I was right.

Instead of channeling Teddy Roosevelt, Zinke appears to be channeling another westerner, James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior, who was known as an anti-environmentalist.

Zinke has apparently been tasked with dismantling every environmental safeguard he can, from reducing the size of national monuments to removing regulations on grazing land that protect sage grouse.

At least James Watt never claimed to be something he wasn’t.

Zinke would have us believe he’s a sportsman and actually cares about the land when it’s obvious he doesn’t. He’s simply a do-what-he’s-told kind of guy.

Zinke replaced Sarah Palin as the belle of the pro-development ball, dressed up like a little kid playing cowboy, his mantra little different than her shrill cry of “Drill, baby drill.”

Except he carries it off with a lot more pomp and circumstance. When Zinke is in his office — decorated with stuffed animals he didn’t kill on the walls — a flag is raised by a staffer. When he leaves, the flag is taken down.

Zinke also had a personalized coin minted to hand out to visitors. Secretaries of the Interior have had coins before, but never bearing their names.

I guess he didn’t want anyone to wonder who that clown in the cowboy hat is.

I wanted to think that a Montanan would do good things, would leave a legacy to be proud of, but Zinke is just paving the way to a high-paying lobbying job when his time as secretary comes to an end.

He’s kidding himself if he thinks in any way he embodies Teddy Roosevelt, an independent spirit and passionate hunter if there ever was one.

Zinke is a willing puppet of an administration that likes to dress him up like a cowboy and watch him dance.

He’s fine pretending he’s something he isn’t and seems to be fine with what he is — an embarrassment to Montana.

2 comments on “Wild Horse Hater “Dinky” Zinke is a Clown Pretending to be a Cowboy”

No RT it’s already been an eon too long. The longer they keep screwing around with him the more damage they are going to have time to cause. You want your wild west turned into a garbage dump? Just give that group more time. It takes the blink of an eye to blow the top off of a mountain, to pollute the water, to kill the animals, to disrupt the whole environment so that nothing can survive. I hear that Louisiana is feeling the crunch. I hear that the ozone hole is opening up again. I hear that we are seriously in trouble now out just started the doomsday clock yet again. Even Mr phony cowboy can’t make it without oxygen and without the forests there isn’t going to be that either. These creatures that the republican party is putting on charge are even looking like my vision of dead people. Those nightmares I used to have when I was younger. Yeah give them time and look at what’s left to save…..NOTHING. Get them all out of our government. They are the disease and they must not be only masked.. They must be destroyed.

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